{"id":47324,"date":"2018-06-29T01:01:40","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T23:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/06\/29\/facebook-patents-system-that-can-use-your-phones-mic-to-monitor-tv-habits\/"},"modified":"2018-06-29T01:01:40","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T23:01:40","slug":"facebook-patents-system-that-can-use-your-phones-mic-to-monitor-tv-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=47324","title":{"rendered":"Facebook patents system that can use your phone&#039;s mic to monitor TV habits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>System would allow Facebook to identify what adults and children are watching based on ambient noiseFacebook has patented a system that can remotely activate the microphone on someone\u2019s phone using inaudible signals broadcast via a television. The patent application describes a system where an audio fingerprint embedded in TV shows or ads, inaudible to human ears, would trigger the phone, tablet or long-rumoured smart speaker to turn on the microphone and start recording \u201cambient audio of the content item\u201d. The recording could then be matched to a database of content to allow Facebook to identify what the individual was watching \u2013 like Shazam for TV, but without the individual choosing to activate the system. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2018\/jun\/28\/facebook-patent-phone-mic-listening-tv-shows\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook patents system that can use your phone&#039;s mic to monitor TV habits<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>System would allow Facebook to identify what adults and children are watching based on ambient noiseFacebook has patented a system that can remotely activate the microphone on someone\u2019s phone using inaudible signals broadcast via a television. The patent application describes a system where an audio fingerprint embedded in TV shows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}